2012 Newspaper Archives

Unearth your ancestors and family history in newspapers from 2012.

Throughout the years, records of historical events have been kept through the use of newspapers. Newspapers have continued to be used as a primary source of information and an irreplaceable source for hundreds past events. NewspaperArchive has utilized this to feature the most notable events that have occurred. Such events for the year 2012 include the European Union adopting an embargo against Iran, the discontinuance of the Encyclopedia Britannica's print edition after 244 years of being published, the manual docking of the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou 9, Felix Baumgartner becoming the first person to break the sound barrier without mechanical assistance, the Kyoto Protocol being extended for another eight years by the United Nations, and so much more! Each title is available individually, and all are searchable via an interface that allows users to easily view, search, zoom, print and save digital page images.

Historical Events
For Year 2012

There is no better source of the stories of yesterday, as they were actually told, than Newspaper Archives. Discover your ancestry with records from every world history event and find treasures that simply aren't available anywhere else. Newspaper Archives have preserved essential accounts of your family, famous people and events that shaped this nation for hundreds of years.
What will you discover?

Browse 2012 Newspaper Archives

Tap into that historic information without the hassle of manually sorting through mounds of papers. All of these 2012 events have been preserved in various newspapers and can be researched using our extensive newspaper collection of 167+ million of pages with detailed documentation of many of the World's most prominent historical events.

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